Some time ago I stopped collecting the coins from different countries (I had 280 different at that moment) and started collecting coins from one country only - San Marino. Now I have 327 different types. Are there any people who too have one-country-only collections? Or maybe you collect few different countries? Feel free to share your thoughts and collections here.
I don't collect commemorative series, only some commemorative coins if they formed the part of a normal circulation series. This makes 300 types from a single country quite a challenge, if not impossible for most countries. My tally for Brazil is the highest with 112 types. That country suffered from quite some inflation which partly explains the high number of circulation coin types (Switzerland is the opposite case). If I count all my German coins I get to 154 types. There are plenty of German States coins that are collectible to me. It is just a bit costly to find the qualities I like.
Quote: "ashlobo"According to numista I have two countries...
Poland 337
Republic India 318
Thailand is nearly there with 293; followed by Russia at 252. Both these countries issue so many coins anyways, I'll get there soon enough!
I guess you are mistaking total number of coins with types ?
Quote: "ashlobo"According to numista I have two countries...
Poland 337
Republic India 318
Thailand is nearly there with 293; followed by Russia at 252. Both these countries issue so many coins anyways, I'll get there soon enough!
I guess you are mistaking total number of coins with types ?
if i go by coins; then India is 340 ; Poland is 338 and Thailand, Russia remain the same
i guess the descreipency comes because I collect varieties of Indian coins which numista doesn't distinguish . But otherwise I'm a type collector
I don't like commemoratives or modern coins so I'm not likely to get 300+ types from any country.
The only one that I collect which I may conceivably get 300 coins is the UK, I've currently got 58 different types so it would be a long process to get to 300.
Ok, figured it out.
Getting to 300 must be tough! I thought I would have several but....
My best;
Germany (in all its iterations) 282
USA 184
UK 170
Mexico 155
I don't really collect NCLT, and I'm not much of a fan of all the rambling "circulating" modern commemoratives either (I do have a lot of the Russian ones, but mostly only because I consistently ask cashiers for weird money, and I haven't entered most of them in my Numista collection anyway).
And given my limited budget, I'm unlikely to be able to get a lot of the rare old coins either (especially the assorted large silvers, such as thalers).
So I'm not sure if I could ever reach 300 types from any one country (except perhaps German States, and/or German notgeld, if I focus on it quickly... in principle Poland-Lithuania is another possibility, because their definition of "type" is everyone else's "minor variety", but their coins tend to be worth $5-10 or more each, so getting enough money to buy 300 will take a lot of time; and it might well end up that the types will be condensed before that happens, leaving me with a hundred coins but only 20 or so types).
Right now, the Numista country I have the most types for is Romania, with 41, for which I'm slowly working on a type set (about halfway done). Though I have a total of 78 types across all the variations of Russia (and this number will likely grow as I enter more of the random old Russian coins I have lying around).
Raw coin counts aren't very meaningful here (I have 51 different coins from China PR, but only 10 different types). France seems to have the largest (96 coins over 39 types, though some of those are duplicates).
Still far away from 300. My best is Canada with 218 different types (233 when Canadian provinces and Newfoundland are included).
But I didn't add Europe/Asia yet to the Numista database. Maybe then.
Quote: "asimov37"12 years of numismatic frenzy !
You're relentless :D
I am collecting coins for 16 years now, but for 13 or 14 years I didn't have any resources at all, so it was something like 'if you've been in some other country, please give me your change'. Then for the last two years I started treating the hobby seriously and now it's a very nice collection :)
looking at your collection, still think that you read the question wrong. For example you have 363 coins from USA but a lot of different years from pennies and different mint marks. 300 different types means 300 different KM numbers from a country.
If you read carefully my message, I wrote "in my collection",
not "in my Numista personal list of coins"...
I have a lot of coins to add to my Numista list: Lack of time...
Quote: "ashlobo"
Is that Republic of India 810 ? If so I'm guessing you've included by date and Mintmark ?
That looks like to be the case. I tried the count from the excel export of my coins.
if you go to the tab "your coins" Where you see the heat coloured world map, you have an option just below the map to click on "by type" as well as "by coins". And then hover your mouse pointer over India to see accordingly
Notoriously, Canada bests my own native USA, 181 vs 157. More circulating commemoratives, more circulating denominations, and more composition changes.
For me Germany (in all its forms) 213 types (individual KM #s or other catalog as Germany's numbers are high due to notgeld types)
USA 205 types (individual KM#s)
If I check on numista(I collect only type), based on these countries only Poland (due to huge 2 zl-serie) with 385 coins is above 300.
UK with 295 almost. I though I have also many San Marino, but "only" 180.
if I combine some subcountries, also France, Germany, Russia will come above 300.
furthermore about 30 countries between 100-200, a 5 between 200-300
Quote: "mic-w-nl"If I check on numista(I collect only type), based on these countries only Poland (due to huge 2 zl-serie) with 385 coins is above 300.
UK with 295 almost. I though I have also many San Marino, but "only" 180.
if I combine some subcountries, also France, Germany, Russia will come above 300.
furthermore about 30 countries between 100-200, a 5 between 200-300
How many years did it take to amass all of that? :D
Quote: "mic-w-nl"If I check on numista(I collect only type), based on these countries only Poland (due to huge 2 zl-serie) with 385 coins is above 300.
UK with 295 almost. I though I have also many San Marino, but "only" 180.
if I combine some subcountries, also France, Germany, Russia will come above 300.
furthermore about 30 countries between 100-200, a 5 between 200-300
How many years did it take to amass all of that? :D
around 20 years of swapping and sometimes buying some coin on markets or internet
Quote: "mic-w-nl"If I check on numista(I collect only type), based on these countries only Poland (due to huge 2 zl-serie) with 385 coins is above 300.
UK with 295 almost. I though I have also many San Marino, but "only" 180.
if I combine some subcountries, also France, Germany, Russia will come above 300.
furthermore about 30 countries between 100-200, a 5 between 200-300
How many years did it take to amass all of that? :D
around 20 years of swapping and sometimes buying some coin on markets or internet
